Frikadeller

Really? Well, that's something I would expect MEC to do. Fuckers! BTW, how much did all that jazz set you back?

Actually, if you look at their shipping policy, they have some items that are not "available" for shipping to the US, why I have no idea.... I just want another one of those "yellow mats" again. They work great!

Nope, nope, and nope. I just picked it up tonite from climbmax. Cool little book. It's about the gorge, and the gorge only. Way rad! And like some one else said, it's choked full of routes that I have only admired, but to add pictures of them with topos!!! yeah! Hell yeah. Now, if I only climbed rock....

MEC has 'em. They will not ship that shit to the USA.... So....

It's an internet forum....

Actually......... That's not the right quote..... It's: “Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.” -Ernest Hemingway FWIW the quote "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games" is generally attributed to Hemingway... however it may have originated with Barnaby Conrad or Ken Purdy, a writer who wrote a character named Helmut Ovden, modeled on Hemingway. Fuck you!!! rock nerd. Signed: Book nerd! Yo, we rock, you suck!

I have one, and use it on snow. But I usually also double it up with a Thermarest pad. One complaint I have about the z is the texture. Kind of like a egg crate dimples, and they can hold water if it gets wet. Plus I don't like the feeling against my body when trying to sleep. Like a million pressure point poking me. I think I am going to switch to one of those yellow "hard man" roll mats if I can ever find one... (I used to have one back in the 80's, but it's no where I can find it.)

Cool! I was looking at that book on the web page you linked a few month ago, and was bummed that it was out of print.

Actually......... That's not the right quote..... It's: “Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.” -Ernest Hemingway

Ummm,..... Is that not a sleeping bag in the back ground? I think I would choose sleeping bag over duct tape if I was cold. But then again, what do I know. Retards do all sorts of strange shit.

OK bug, I was just joking about the "chimney" rap.... You know, we all did it at one time.... On another note you survived... Many others did not. Our spirit of this "sport" is in memory of those that did not "make it" in their persuit of the "sport". "Far, du er altil med mig på the loftige steder..." Josh: That's a Danish "i'm Sorry for being a rotten kid" euology. My Dad died Mountaineering, in his late 50's. He had the same spirit you do. Abandon safety, summits we shall seek!!!

Was this when you where rapping off you mom's chimney? Rope slip? Chimney fell apart?

Whoa! This thread moves fast. I am still trying to figure out what is happening in this picture...

I grew up in the South Bay area.... that place is a hell hole. I am so much happier living in PDX!! I can be in the mountains within an hour or so. Not the whole planned out BS trip you have to do living in the bay area. I also lived in Oakland for a little while, while better than the San Jo, It was nearly just as miserable after a while. Have you ever driven for 100 miles on a freeway, only to still be in the metro area of a city? Welcome to the SF Bay area. Oh yeah, and housing is VERY over priced!!! A beat up starter house begins around $450K and up.... ( Well, I also earned more money in the bay area, so I guess it might even out in the long run.) Good luck! Who knows, you might like it.

Just curious, did your partner break through a snowbridge while on foot, or on skis? And if on skis, while skinning up, or skiing down? We where on foot after decending on splitboards. We where crossing an area that looked solid, but turned out to be a snowbridge that was completely covered up (no signs of a crevasse)...

That's fine with me, as long as you keep Washingtonians off our roads in Portland. It sure would ease traffic a bit.

I rapped off a chimney once, it was to install an attic fan. My customer was very impressed, unlike your mom, if she found out what you and you brother did...

But, I have done it in early season, and had to pull out a partner on the "flats". Good thing we roped up. We where not the only ones roped up that day.

It looked like this earlier in the year... I doubt it looks anything like that now a days.

That's why I don't have kids... They would be rapping off the roof while I was at work...

where are the pictures?

on that note, I have climbed the SS without crampons before. I had them in my pack, but never needed them. New snow on the ground all the way up the route. Sweet ski back down too!

I would like to know what you smoke/snort/drink before you post around here so I could understand at least part of it.

That photo reminds me about how I am done with that hill for the year (at least summit trips) until some new snow comes back.